With Japan noted that the consumer of coffee in third place in the world, it is not surprising that coffee (kissatens) abound, with Tokyo alone home to over ten thousand. Shops come in all sizes and styles, but the smaller versions usually include only one counter and some tables, which are often sole proprietorships husband and wife, who contributed a waitress part-time running. These companies are often twice as a small restaurant that offers sandwiches and light meals during the lunch break. For breakfast a whole “morning” is often available, usually from juice, coffee, eggs and toast. This mother and businesses are increasingly pop by chain stores important as Detour, Tully’s replaced, and Starbucks, which offers on the coffee counter, seats more spacious, and in the case of Starbucks a non-smoker . This has become an important asset in a country that are currently very few restrictions on smoking in bars and restaurants.
Others have sought to develop a single theme different from the competition. Music Café, for example, with jazz, classical or rock, always a popular meeting place for younger audiences have since their inception in the 1960s were. Less public, but very popular manga (comic) Coffee, which have emerged in recent years in Tokyo. Coffee is free, and serves the customer pays only for the duration of time spent reading in the library of thousands of manga style on shelves along the space provided. On a related topic, “Maid Kissa coffee shops feature beautiful young waitresses dressed in maid costumes, the characters from the popular Japanese comics are similar. In principle the client, he or she is greeted by an attractive “Welcome home, my Lord.” offered in addition to the verbal part, servants pour coffee and tea for customers, or in a game of cards on demand. Many of these pubs are in simulating the style of an English manor house, decorated with real feelings as “master of the house.” Some stores are subtly differ from the image cafeteria with respect to their place business such as Internet cafes, often reflecting the owners personal taste in interior design and music, and focusing on a European atmosphere in the home-style cuisine and a good cup of coffee can still be appreciated.
Despite the various issues that used by owners to attract customers, the most important feature of the menu is always the coffee. For purists looking for an exotic mix or a special method of roasting, a growing number of stores now offer customers freshly brewed coffee by leaks in the building techniques that we hope that customers of coffee shop franchises that come to dominate the market now, to attract recent years. Whether you’re on a temporary refuge from the noise of the city, or a user fast for me first thing in the morning, coffee in Japan, have something for everyone here.